Motor racing returned to Killarney International Raceway after nearly six months of lockdown on Saturday 22 August as the Short Circuit categories led the way with a day of tightly fought contests. With no less than 20 entries, the CBR150 riders provided action and excitement throughout...
As a teenager in the years directly following the Second World War Jacobus 'Koos' Swanepoel would ride his bicycle through the bush to the outer ring road of a new industrial area to the south of Pinelands called Epping. At weekends the ring road, patriotically named...
Brian Peek (Peekus Minimus!), the Godfather of the Killarney commentary team for many years, was much more than a commentator – he was a successful racing driver, a kart designer and builder, a timekeeper, one of the founding fathers of the WPMC marshals and above...
In a career spanning only 11 years Mike Cameron achieved two Western Province 50cc championships and an interprovincial 100cc championship, a national 250cc title, the 1977 SA Production Motorcycle championship and a surprisingly successful 1979 international campaign after a desperately difficult debut season in the...
Cape Town - He did it in real life last year, and now in Esports! Reigning World Rallycross champion Timmy Hansen, who took the 2019 WRX title in a no-holds-barred final at Killarney International Raceway in November 2019, has won the inaugural FIA WorldRX Esports...
Most of us remember Peter Gough as a tall, friendly gentleman with a lot of old burn scars, who could pedal a Porsche around Killarney faster than most drivers half his age – but there's a lot more to his story than that. Peter was born...
The short answer is that we simply don't know. Under the revised Level 3 Risk Adjustment Regulations announced by the president on 25 June, certain sports are permitted to resume, under very strict Covid-19 protocols and restrictions. Motorsport, however, is not one of them, so we...
Brian Hoskins is arguably the most knowledgeable and experienced Clerk of the Course in South African motorsport. As a former motorcycle racer and the father of a former motorcycle racer, Brian's focus at Killarney has always been to run the safest possible race meetings with the...
Armien Levy has loved fast cars all his life. As a child he dismantled a clockwork toy car his father had given him and modified the mechanism to make it go faster and by the time he was 12 he knew he wanted to be...
Newly qualified architect and keen amateur racing driver Denis Joubert was elected as secretary of the Metropolitan Motorcycle and Car Club in 1959 and was pitchforked almost immediately into the negotiations that resulted in a loan of £20 000 from the then Divisional Council of...